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One of America’s oldest and spookiest hotels, thanks to the residency of ghosts, dead presidents, and Alfred Hitchcock.

The highest point in South Dakota contains the ashes of Valentine McGillycuudy, the "Holy White Man."

Hidden behind Lincoln's head is a chamber containing enamel plates documenting American history, sealed in a teakwood box in a titanium vault.

This prehistoric sinkhole lured exclusively male mammoths to their death, much to the delight of science.

The world's largest mountain carving could fit all of Mount Rushmore inside it many times over.

An ancient glacial pothole waterfall in the heart of the Green Mountains.

One of the oldest cemeteries in Vermont is the final resting place of soldiers, politicians, and a famous author.

A beautiful, creepy 19th-century castle stands incongruously in rural Vermont.

The building that inspired Shirley Jackson's "The Haunting of Hill House."

Lake Champlain Bridge, the recently demolished and rebuilt bridge where they filmed "What Lies Beneath".

According to folklore, Vermont's slanted windows were installed to keep witches from flying into the house.

Two distinctive homes on a New England village green look like a couple of frosted wedding cakes.

A 150-square-foot masterpiece of American landscape art is the crown jewel of this library and art gallery in Vermont.

This 150 foot seven-tiered cascading waterfall is one of the hidden gems of the White Mountains.

3,200-square-foot mural inside Dartmouth Library depicts the history of America with images of human sacrifice, ancient gods, and other unspeakable terrors.

The summer home and later final residence of acclaimed American sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens.

The Old Man of the Mountain’s less-famous, but still beloved little brother is said to resemble a leader of the Abenaki tribe.

The first park built over a freeway is a brutalist masterwork.

The 19th-century home of Count and Countess von Hallwyl is now a museum.

This twice-relocated "Usonian" home is among the smallest built by master architect Frank Lloyd Wright.

A Victorian-style home known as the “Castle on the Hill.”

A saloon and inn that served the Wild West's most iconic figures—and is still haunted by some of them today.

The oldest continuously-operated inn in the United States, once owned by Henry Ford.

A 19th-century British industrialist built this Louis XIII–inspired chateau for his homesick French wife.